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  • IMU co-founder Jumaboi Khojiev, who took the nom de guerre Juma Namangani after his hometown of Namangan, was reportedly killed in northern Afghanistan during the U.S. ouster of the Taliban regime after the Sept. 11 attacks.

    Ripples... 2005

  • "Was it true that an official of the government name Juma bin Mohammed had been murdered?"

    What Is To Become of the British Protectorates? 1944

  • On the Mohammedan special weekly day of prayer and mosque services, Friday, called Juma, or the day of the congregation,

    Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873

  • The Hendrix recording is not - repeat, is not - on the two-LP-and-one-CD boxed set called "Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society: Father of Origin," to be released next week by Eremite.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2011

  • Juma, that is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides she kept all the keys.

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Juma, that is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides she kept all the keys.

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 13 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Juma, that is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides she kept all the keys.

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • I renewed my promise to be her husband; and thus the next day that the bano chanced to be empty she at different times gave us by means of the reed and cloth two thousand gold crowns and a paper in which she said that the next Juma, that is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides she kept all the keys.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • I did offer myself anew to become her husband; and with this the day ensuing wherein the bath was also free, she sent me down at divers times by the cane two thousand ducats and a letter, wherein she said that she would go to her father’s garden the next Juma, that is, the Friday following, and that before she went away she would give us more money; and that if it were not enough, we should advise her, and she would give unto us as much as we would demand; for her father had so much treasure as he would never perceive it; how much more, seeing she had and kept the keys of all.

    The Fourth Book. XIII. Wherein Is Prosecuted the History of the Captive 1909

  • Juma says the defections are growing signs of weakness of the Gadhafi administration despite its sharp denial that the defections have had no effect on the ongoing crisis.

    Opposition Hopes to Gain Information from Libyan Defector 2011

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